Willie E. Treadway

On the morning of January 29, 1924 our community was almost paralyzed with the news of Willie Treadaway's death, some not even knowing of his sickness. He was taken suddenly ill on Saturday night after cutting stalks part of the day Saturday making preparation for his intended next year's crops and died the following Monday night.

Willie was one of the most moral, hardest working Christian boys of our country, loved by all. He and his mother, Mrs. Matilda Treadaway, moved to this community many years ago from somewhere near the Gabriel's Creek section of the country. The writer has been a close friend of the family since their coming here and can truly say Willie was one of the best boys to his widowed mother I ever saw.

He professed faith in Christ some years ago and expressed the same confidence in his last moments, however expressed one regret that he had not followed Christ in the ordinance of Baptism, but said he would be baptized if permitted to get well.

Obituary in newspaper on February 15, 1924 by Mrs. A.B. Metcalf of Paint Fork, N.C.

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